Environment matters. For anyone wondering how the latest brain research applies to the care of infants and toddlers, that is the crucial finding. Yes, proper brain development is a matter of genetics and nutrition and whether a mother-to-be drinks or smokes, but it also depends on the stimuli, as the scientists call them, that a baby receives. It depends on what the baby sees, hears and touches and on the emotions he or she repeatedly experiences. But if environment matters, we are faced with a question: At a time when children suffer from perhaps the gravest social problems of any group...
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